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Natasha Henstridge	In 2009, Henstridge did a guest spot on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
Wayne King	In early 1958 he appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show To Tell The Truth.
Kreskin	In 2009, he became the first guest to make three appearances on the new Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Ed McMahon	McMahon and Carson left the show to join The Tonight Show in 1962.
Sam Berman	right | 300px | thumb | Sam Berman's caricature of bandleader-vocalist Eddy Howard for NBC's 1947 promotional book, NBC Parade of Stars as Seen by Sam Berman : As Heard over Your Favorite NBC Station.
Andy Richter	Richter hosted in place of O'Brien, who was still prohibited from hosting any television program until fall 2010.
Boothby Graffoe (comedian)	In 2003, Graffoe appeared on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien and also caused a stir on Opportunity Knocks during the late 1980s when he wrapped sellotape around his head for comedy effect.
April Winchell	On March 16, 2007, she returned to semi-regular radio appearances on The Marc'' Mr. K'' Germain Show on KTLK - AM (the new show hosted by the former Mr. KABC) and appeared twice a month.
Bonnie Tyler	In September 2006, Tyler made her first appearance on US television in years, as she sang a duet of'' Total Eclipse of the Heart'' with actress Lucy Lawless on the American show Celebrity Duets.
Frank Rich	He has two sons from his previous marriage to Gail Winston ; as of 2010, one, Simon Rich, was a writer for Saturday Night Live, a live, late-night television sketch comedy and variety show, and the other, Nathaniel Rich, is a novelist and was an editor for The Paris Review.
Joey Heatherton	From June to September 1968, along with Frank Sinatra, Jr., she co-hosted Martin's summer substitute musical comedy hour, Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers.
Bill Cullen	While Cullen was in the running to host the 1972 revival of The Price Is Right for CBS, the physical demands of the new format were considered too strenuous for him.
Vanna White	White's popularity peaked after the syndicated version of Wheel of Fortune made its debut in September 1983.
Karen Morrow	From 1969, she made Los Angeles, California her home base, where she worked on local cable in a short-lived series called Singin that co-starred her friend and peer, Nancy Dussault and appeared regularly on The Jim Nabors Hour (1969), The Merv Griffin Show, The Tonight Show and Match Game.
Peter Lassally	As of 2009, he is the executive producer of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Warren Zevon	Zevon was a frequent guest and occasional substitute bandleader on Letterman's television shows since Late Night was first broadcast in 1982.
Akiho Yoshizawa	From April 2008 she was a cast regular on the late night TV Osaka variety show which also included other S1 actresses such as Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami, Rio (Tina Yuzuki) and Mihiro singing and performing comedy skits.
Conan O'Brien	A proposal was made that would see O'Brien remain as host of The Tonight Show, which would be moved to 12:05 am with Leno hosting a 30-minute show at 11:35 pm On January 10, NBC Universal Television Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin confirmed that The Jay Leno Show would indeed end at the start of the Winter Olympics on February 12, 2010, and be moved to 11:35 pm following the Olympics coverage.
Anton Fig	Anton Fig has been the drummer for the Paul Shaffer - led house band of David Letterman's late night television shows since 1986, when he debuted with'' The World's Most Dangerous Band'' on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman.
George Layton	In 2006, he made five appearances in Dictionary Corner on the game show Countdown and made a guest appearance in an episode of Heartbeat.
Jim Forbes (journalist)	Forbes narrated the Emmy winning 2000 season finale of The Simpsons, and episodes of Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Late Night, Jimmy Kimmel Live !
Frankie Boyle	In December 2010, both Katie Price and Peter Andre were said to have been left'' absolutely disgusted and sickened'' by a joke that was made on Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights about Price's heavily disabled son, Harvey.
David Letterman	Late Night with David Letterman debuted February 1, 1982 ; the first guest on the first show was Bill Murray.
Ethel Barrymore	Barrymore also made a number of television appearances in the 1950s, including one memorable encounter with comedian Jimmy Durante on NBC's All Star Revue on December 1, 1951, which is preserved on a kinescope.
Jim Cramer	On November 3, 2009, Cramer appeared on the Martha Stewart Show to promote his new book, Getting Back to Even.
Bela Lugosi	In September 1949 Milton Berle invited Lugosi to appear in a sketch on Texaco Star Theater.
Liam Neeson	In 2004, Neeson hosted an episode of the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live.
Luther Vandross	On December 31, 2012, America Stand-up comedian/actor and television host Eric Andre referenced Luther Vandross on his television show'' The Eric Andre Show'' in an episode called'' com/61380795 New Year's Eve Spooktacular !''
Frank Stanton (executive)	On June 25, 1951, Stanton appeared on an hour-long special, Premiere, with Robert Alda, Faye Emerson, Ed Sullivan, Arthur Godfrey, William S. Paley and others to introduce the CBS color sequential system of color TV.
Kathy Griffin	Kathy Griffin served as the unofficial guest co-host of The View from May 2007 to September 2007 and was considered as a replacement for the recently departed Rosie O'Donnell.
Sara Bareilles	Bareilles was selected as MTV artist of the week for July 7 -- 11 and appeared again on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 ; and on December 9, 2008 (with Ingrid Michaelson).
Caterina Valente	In 1958, she filmed the musical comedy Hier bin ich -- hier bleib ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay) which featured a guest appearance by Bill Haley & His Comets.
Shindong	From 2009, Shindong, along with Eunhyuk and Leeteuk, has been regular guests on SBS's Strong Heart, where they host special segment, Boom Academy, headed by entertainer Boom.
Tommy DeVito (musician)	The single landed Tommy his first national television appearance, when the Four Lovers appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
Rebecca Black	On March 22, 2011, Black appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the single and discussed the negative reaction to it.
Conan O'Brien	While on a writers' strike from Saturday Night Live following the 1987 -- 88 season, O'Brien put on an improvisational comedy revue in Chicago with fellow SNL writers Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel called Happy Happy Good Show.
Adam Goldberg	On June 7, 2011, Goldberg performed as lead singer with his group The Goldberg Sisters, performing'' Shush'' on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
David Anderson (American football)	He was featured on Late Night with Conan O'Brien when he performed the host's original string dance after catching a touchdown against the Cincinnati Bengals on October 26, 2008.
Adam Wade (singer)	He is noted for his stint as the host of the 1975 CBS game show Musical Chairs, which made him the first African-American game show host.
Daniel Craig	Craig hosted the American late-night live television sketch comedy Saturday Night Live on 6 October 2012.
Al Schwartz (producer)	In 1955, he was designated as a liaison to Ed Sullivan, an American entertainment writer and television host.
Dave Matthews	The fifth time Matthews appeared as musical guest on Saturday Night Live in November 2009 (which was also the fourth time the Dave Matthews Band appeared on the show), he made an appearance as Ozzy Osbourne in a skit called'' The Mellow Show.''
Gloria Gaynor	In 2010, she appeared on Last Comic Standing and The Tonight Show.
Eddie Ifft	Ifft performed on many stand-up comedy specials, including Comedy Central's Premium Blend, NBC's Late Friday Night, BET's Comic View, ABC's Comics Unleashed, NBC's Last Comic Standing, and in July 2001 he performed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival in New Faces.
Natalie Maines	Maines appeared on'' The Howard Stern Show'' on Nov. 3, 2008 and met Stern Show regular Eric Lynch, better known as'' Eric the Midget'' or'' Eric the Actor'', who was making his first in-person appearance on the show.
Brooke Shields	She was also the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live - like sketch comedy show, in 1981.
Rob Riggle	On August 3, 2010, Riggle made a surprise cameo on The Daily Show during an interview with Will Ferrell.
Roberto Benigni	In addition, on a 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live, host Ray Romano played him in a sketch parodying his giddy behavior at the ceremony.
Conan O'Brien	O'Brien was a writer and producer for The Simpsons for two seasons until he was commissioned by NBC to take over David Letterman's position as host of Late Night in 1993.
Ray Suen	Suen was also featured in 2007 as an occasional member of the Joe Firstman house band on Last Call with Carson Daly.
Seth MacFarlane	On September 15, 2012, MacFarlane hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Frank Ocean.
Tiny Tim (musician)	On December 17, 1969, with 40 million viewers watching, Tiny Tim married Victoria Mae Budinger (aka'' Miss Vicki'') on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck	In August 2009, Hasselbeck, along with her co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Barbara Walters, won the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
Rush Limbaugh	On December 17, 1993, Limbaugh appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Jay Silverheels	In 1969, he appeared as Tonto without The Lone Ranger in a comedy sketch on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Red Peters	In 1997, Peters appeared on Stern's radio show, and shortly thereafter on his CBS late night television show, The Howard Stern Radio Show.
Bob Barker	On July 23 it was announced that comedian Drew Carey would take Barker's place as the new host for the show beginning on October 15, 2007.
Artie Lange	On December 9, 2009, Lange made his final on-air appearance as a staff member of The Howard Stern Show.
Maggi McNellis	Maggi McNellis appeared as herself in the not-well-received Betty Hutton television special Satins and Spurs in 1954.
Tom Snyder	In 1999 Snyder left The Late Late Show, which was then reformatted for Craig Kilborn.
Robert Vaughn	In the mid 1990s, he made several cameo appearances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien as an audience member who berates the host and his guests beginning with,'' You people sicken me...'' In 2004, after a string of guest roles on series such as Law & Order, in which he had a recurring role during season eight, Vaughn experienced a resurgence.
Jonah Hill	Instead, he hosted the March 15, 2008, show, which featured musical guest Mariah Carey (who replaced the originally scheduled musical guest Janet Jackson).
Johnny Carson	In addition, the final image of the show, as well as some'' More to Come'' bumpers, of Carson's last show on May 22, 1992, featured a photo Richard had taken.
Jennifer Ringley	She appeared July 31, 1998 as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Ron Jeremy	During the 2013 Academy Award broadcast, host and emcee Seth MacFarlane mentioned Jeremy in his opening monologue,'' From Whoopi all the way down to Ron Jeremy, it eventually found its way to me'', joking about the number of rejections that Oscar organizers must have gotten from potential hosts before they arrived at him.
George Fenneman	He was the commercial spokesman for Lipton Tea during much of the 1960s, and in that role appeared live on The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles made their second U. S. TV appearance on February 16, 1964.
Shug Fisher	From 1955 -- 60, he made regular appearances on ABC-TV's country music variety show, Ozark Jubilee, as a comedian and singer.
Jane Pickens Langley	In 1954, Pickens appeared in a 15-minute ABC television musical series, The Jane Pickens Show, which was replaced in the spring by The Martha Wright Show.
Dennis Day	An attempt was made to adapt A Day in the Life Of Dennis Day as an NBC filmed series (Sam Berman's caricature of Dennis was used in the opening and closing titles), produced by Jerry Fairbanks for Dennis' sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive, featuring the original radio cast, but got no farther than an unaired 1949 pilot episode.
Lola Astanova	thumb | Lola Astanova (right) with Today Show Meredith Vieira on the Today Show Astanova became a star of the October 2007 Classical Superstars Fantasy Concert alongside Valery Gergiev and Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, hosted by ABC's television host Regis Philbin.
Ed Sullivan	In 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show.
Catherine Oxenberg	Oxenberg was the guest host on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live on May 10, 1986 (making her the only descendant of a royal family to host the show).
Montel Williams	In 2003, he made a guest appearance on the soap as himself to promote an episode of his own show on which several AMC stars were scheduled to appear.
Judith Anderson	Anderson was a frequent star of Hallmark Hall of Fame productions, and was featured in the TV special Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954), broadcast on all four TV networks of the time, and produced by David O. Selznick.
Julia Sweeney	At a Groundlings performance in 1989, Saturday Night Live (SNL) producer Lorne Michaels discovered Sweeney and offered her a spot as one of SNL's featured players.
Arnold Stang	Comedian Henry Morgan made him a sidekick on his program in fall of 1946 and Stang appeared in similar roles the following year on radio shows with Eddie Cantor and Milton Berle.
Cyndi Lauper	In June 2012, Lauper made her first appearance for WWE in 27 years, to promote WWE Raw's 1000th episode, to promote her song'' Echo'', and to memorialize'' Captain'' Lou Albano.
Mimi Hines	On August 28, 1958, she and Ford appeared on The Tonight Show for the first time.
Andrew Dice Clay	In 1990, Clay was invited to guest host the weekly comedy TV show Saturday Night Live.
Art Fleming	It was reported that Fleming was asked to reprise his role as'' Jeopardy'' host when Merv Griffin brought the show back as a weeknight syndicated show in 1984, but he declined, leading Griffin to turn to Alex Trebek.
Frank Edwards (writer and broadcaster)	Edwards made an appearance on the Johnny Carson - era Tonight Show, in October, 1966.
Sacha Baron Cohen	However, in 2004, he did the talk show circuit appearing as himself on Late Show with David Letterman, The Opie and Anthony Show, The Howard Stern Show, and others in order to promote the upcoming season of his show on HBO.
Tracy Morgan	In December 2011, he also made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live's Christmas show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
John Henry Faulk	His radio successes provided opportunity for him to appear as himself on television, in shows like the 1951 Mark Goodson and William Todman game show It's News to Me, hosted by John Charles Daly.
Michael McDonald (singer)	On March 13, 2013, he appeared in a segment on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Paterson Joseph	In 2006 he appeared in the television sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look where he played Simon, a contestant on the game show Numberwang.
Fred Armisen	Armisen's subsequent television work, such as some'' memorable Andy Kaufman - esque appearances'' In the 2004 season, he was promoted to a repertory cast member.
Fred Eaglesmith	In 2010, Eaglesmith was featured on the Late Show with David Letterman as the musical guest.
Adele	Then, she was the musical guest on 18 October 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live.
David Koechner	After his one season on SNL, Koechner joined the 1996 -- 97 sketch cast of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he was perhaps best remembered in the NBC Gargoyles recurring sketches, pairing Koechner with Conan regular Brian McCann as two obnoxious Gargoyle statues often perched outside Conan's desk window.
Soupy Sales	Sales performed The Mouse on The Ed Sullivan Show in September 1965, just prior to The Beatles' segment of the show.
Kathy Kinney	On March 24, 2009, Kinney appeared in character as Mimi in the beginning of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Mitzi McCall	McCall and Brill appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, the show that featured the U. S. television debut of The Beatles.
Janeane Garofalo	In 1992, she made her television debut on the Ben Stiller Show, and followed this up with roles on The Larry Sanders Show and Saturday Night Live.
Jane Lynch	Lynch will be the co-host of the NBC special New Year's Eve with Carson Daly on December 31, 2013 alongside The Voice host Carson Daly.
Ben Stein	In 1997, Stein was given his own game show by Comedy Central titled Win Ben Stein's Money along with co-host Jimmy Kimmel (replaced by Nancy Pimental and later by Sal Iacono).
Rich Little	The audition won him the job and in 1964, Little made his American television debut on CBS's The Judy Garland Show, where he imitated various male celebrities, including James Mason in A Star Is Born.
Wanda Ramey	She first hosted Midday with Wanda, a short-lived news and interview show, then in 1954 she hosted The Woman Behind the Man (interviewing the wives of famous Bay-area men).
Howard Hesseman	In 1969, he appeared uncredited with The Committee (though at the time using the name Don Sturdy) in several sketches on The Dick Cavett Show, and appeared in one sketch with guest Janis Joplin.
Kevin Johnson (ventriloquist)	In February 2007, Kevin appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman for the show's second'' Ventriloquist Week''.